By Griffin Rogers/A-D Reporter

Frustrations bubbled over during a town hall meeting in a foothills Yuba County subdivision on Monday as residents criticized county officials for their handling of a recent water emergency.
However, county supervisors on Tuesday praised county staff...

A fire on Tuesday evening scorched the inside of an old Yuba City home, which may be almost a century old.
No one lived in the two-story residential building at 1860 Live Oak Blvd., said Yuba City Fire Battalion Chief Robert Bills. The cause of the...

Water reserves in the unincorporated areas of Yuba and Sutter counties are holding up in the summer heat, despite facing a drier-than-usual season, officials said Monday.
Large wildfires have burned through portions of the state's countryside in the...

It's been almost a year and a half since Karyn Stone lost her 24-year-old son, U.S. Army Spc. Chase Stone Marta, to an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.
But Stone still struggles to hold back tears when speaking about him.
"I don't think...

Jana McClung, Sutter County's assistant district attorney, this week announced her plans to run for the spot of top prosecutor in the 2014 election.
She has considered running for district attorney for some time, she said, and eventually began a...

Sutter County supervisors are silent observers and are not calling for District Attorney Carl Adams' resignation.
"In all honesty," Supervisor Ron Sullenger told the Appeal-Democrat on Tuesday, "and I think most of the board members feel the same,...

Two more people in Sutter County have been confirmed to have a serious, neuroinvasive case of West Nile virus, bringing the total number infected in the area to five.
The two most recent people with the virus, whose names were not released on Friday...

Fourteen Yuba-Sutter law enforcement officers shot and killed a man who was armed with a lug wrench, Sutter County District Attorney Carl Adams said Wednesday in declaring the shooting justified.
On April 3, the morning of the shooting, the officers...

The future of commercial solar facilities in Sutter County remains unknown for now, following a brief discussion at a supervisors' study session on Tuesday.
Supervisors were considering the potential development of solar arrays in unincorporated...

There shouldn't be any confusion over what Yuba City teachers rallied for at a district board meeting Tuesday — the signs and shirts said it all: Bridge the salary gap.
Educators in the Yuba City Unified School District make significantly less...